Google Antitrust Judgment cleans the way to Gemini Gemini Gemini

Eddi Cue deserves a raise.

As an executive that oversees Apple Services Serbia, it is highly stimulated to protect tens of billions of dollars a year for Google to be the default search engine in safari. “I lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” he He said from the attitude of witnesses During Google’s antitrust trial earlier this year.

Fortunately for Cue, it seems that his testimony of the court had a significant impact on Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled this week This Google’s default payment of Apple and others can continue. FUE arguments at the trial mirror in the Mehthe Judgment: Apple SVP said “crazy” will punish Maker iPhone by setting up the status and it is still that the company has been strengthened anyway. In an attempt to minimize the importance of Apple and Google’s work, Cue went so far to say If the Google was declined in Safari for the first time, which temporarily caused the Google’s price to decide.

These are the correct arguments of Mehta at the end made in his judgment. He admitted that the default payments continue to “shape the market for general search services in Google’s usefulness”, but will banned them “mutilation” downstream effects on the recipients of these payments. One specific effect that has stated was “less products and smaller innovation of apple products” One of the world’s richest companies. (Google’s Apple Payments are estimated to make about 15% of their annual profit.)

Mehta stated the increase in generative AI companies like Openai and confusion as evidence that the search market is at last. “Money flowing into this space and how fast he arrived, he was astonishing,” he wrote. “These new realities give the Court hope Google does not simply exceed competitors for distribution if top products appear.”

As Mehta knows well, the reality of the financial relationship between Google and Apple is much more complex than that. Google historically paid for Apple’s percentage of advertisements income earned by safari. This implies incentives between the two most powerful companies on earth, both shared in the appearance of this arrangement for a better part of two decades.

This is probably not a coincidence that, immediately after the Judgment of Mehta, The news broke This apple now cooperates with Google to potentially have a Gemini Power and a search engine that develops for Siri. Apple Managers discuss the integration of the twin in Io for more than a year, but were retained due to obvious optical reasons. The US government has just gave permission to continue.

“This outcome is home for status quo, and the status quo was very affordable on Google and Apple,” research firm techniques and media and media action Moffetttnaltanson wrote in its clients this week. “We do not propose that the future of searching or devices are now free from competitive threats, but this decision allows you to move to move on to their conditions, not through interfering and harmful judgments.”

Apple and Google search for the search were supposed to be canceled, and may still be if the apple eventually occurs under antitrust disputes. I talked to many important rivals with Google search that during the years that pointed out the agreement as a key factor in the crowds of competition. You could argue that no agreement had a greater impact on the silicon valley during the long port of time, in fact. The favorite aspect is that it has enabled two companies that are already controlled by most people access the Internet to become richer and stronger together.

The relationship that is allowed to continue is now placing the stage for Apple and Google to expand its common dominance in AI ADI. Apple is behind AI, but the powerful source of distribution for twins are a powerful source, IPPA and Mac. With the payment of searching from Google, it continues to enter, why should Apple gain the starting like Mistral or Confusion to play compensation? It is already paid to work with one of the world’s leading companies and is now Carte Blanche to counterfeit deeper connections.

This week’s judgment also sets goods for the distribution of Openai with Apple for Chatggpt in a heavy place. I’m sure Apple likes to have an option, but will not endanger the Google relationship with a search money. Openai still does not have work for ads to give Apple a competitive cross section. Despite what Michta thinks, it’s hard to imagine any other company that can cross the Google’s default payments with a premium product (sorry, Microsoft). All this leaves Google and Apple where all the time: two de facto monopolies are feeding one of the others to the detriment of everyone else.

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